Portiebe



A. PASZKIEWICZ PQRTIERE Filed July 3, 1.922

Patented Nov. 6, 1923.

ANTONY PASHIEWIGZ, OF MOUNT CARMEL, PENNSYLVANIA.

PORTIERE.

Application filed July 3, 1922. Serial No. 572,373.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTONY PASZKIE- wroz, a citizen of United States,residing at Mount Carmel, in the county of Northumberland and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPortieres, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to portieres, having more particularreference to portieres of the type composed of a number of individualornamental strings.

The invention has for an object to provide a novel form of constructionfor the various individual strings comprising the portiere.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects andadvantages thereof, references will be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which thevarious novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

Fig. 1 of the drawings is a face view of a portiere constructedaccording to my invention.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary elevational view of one of the strings.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a detail view of one of the blanks.

In constructing the individual strings of my improved portiere I employ,in forming the main links 10 thereof, a series of tri-.

angular strips such as 10', preferably of wall paper. These strips arerolled up with their bases innermost to form the said links, whichlatter are thus relatively thick at the centre and taper toward theirends. Passing longitudinally through these links are cords 12 wherebythe various elements of the strings are connected together, these cordsalso passing through spacer elements located between the main links.These spacer elements are in the form of short glass tubes of whichthere are five between each pair of the main links, four of these tubes13, forming a rectangle having opposite corners engaged with the ends ofthe links, while the fifth 14 extends transversely to the string as awhole, between the other two corners of the rectangle.

For securing the parts together a suitable length of the cords 12 ispassed through the link 10, through the adjacent pair of tubular glasselements 18 at each end of the links 10, and through the transverse tube14 at each end, the ends of the cord being preferably knotted togetheras at 15, at a point within the link, while a second knot 16 is alsoformed in the cord 12 at the end of the link so as to prevent the cordsliding and exposing its joined ends 15. As will be understood. thetransverse tubes 14 each receive a pair of the cords 12 and thus formthe connecting medium between the different sections of the string.

The cord passing through the top one of the link 10 may be engaged witha screw eye 18 which is adapted to be screwed into an ordinary curtainpole 19 which may be supported in the usual manner.

In constructing the different strings comprising my improved portierethe various sections are formed by first stringing the 7 glass tubes onthe cords and knotting the ends of the latter, and then rolling thepaper strips around the cords, gluing the difl'erent turns of the paperupon one another, and then covering the completed link with a coat ofvarnish.

My improved portiere, as thus constructed, is of small cost, while atthe same time it presents a novel and exceptionally attractive andpleasing appearance.

Having thus described my invention What I claim as new and desire toprotect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. A portiere comprising a number of chain-like strips having linksformed with longitudinal passages, transversely extending tubularelement-s interposed between the various links and forming in part themeans for connecting the links to one another, and looped cords passedthrough said passages and through the said tubular elements to join thesaid links into a chainlike structure.

2. A portiere comprising a number of chain-like strips having linksformed with longitudinal passages, transversely extending tubularelements interposed between the various links and forming in part themeans 6 for connecting the links to one another,

and looped cords passed through said passages and through the saidtubular elements to join the said links into a chain-like structure, thecords which pass through a pair of adjacent links passing also through acommon interposed tubular element.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

ANTONY PASZKIEVVICZ.

